How's sound going on ?

[Buster]

Hey Andys!
Well, how's song implementation going on ?
Can't wait to listen to the nice melody of Monkey 2 again.

Thanx for this masterpiece of software. I think it's one of the best software ever written for PocketPc.


Bye,

Buster

[andys]

Well, sound apparently works nicely on the ARM, and (with slightly reduced quality) - equally well on the MIPS. However, while reducing quality I seem to have made it rather tempo-tastic - it now runs twice as fast as it should do, although it does sound amusing ;>

I'm planning on merging the sound tree and the normal tree at some point, putting in 8-bit Jornada stuff that Vasyl has offered me, and sticking in a virtual keyboard that Shapeshifter is knocking up. Then it should be done - and at the very least as compliant as scummvm can be.

[mark (killzat)]

Well you know I'm here to test another build when you have it Andy =). I'll try speech out with DOTT tomorrow since DOTT seems to sound the best out of all the games - hmm Monkey2 is ok but I can't find the CD version with speech for that one =(.

Do the sound FX, music and speech routines all play as one under SCUMMVM or could you technically code an option to disable / enable different bits? So for example, disable sound and enable speech + FX?

[mark (killzat)]

Sorry I meant to say disable music - not sound - DOH.

[andys]

The sound implementation is done using adlib emulation. This is then mixed every so often into a 4K block, along with sound effects and probably speech. That's then dumped into the sound system.

The music used to be disableable (oooh, a new word) with the USE_IMUSE define, but I disabled that and had no effect, so there might be something I haven't looked at yet.

Oh yeah, the sound might be slightly too fast in places even when I'm done - which is why I want to test this. Although my hacked Linux version seems to play the speech properly in DOTT

[mark (killzat)]

Is there anything special that needs doing for Speech files to work/be loaded?

[andys]